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for Nora

chocolate + underwear

My new friend

A few days ago someone landed outside my house ...



What? Who?



!olleh olleh
he said.
He talks backwards.



He came from here. Made by Therese.

Flodis' cards :-)

My friend Helena makes really beautiful cards:





She's got a blog, Flodissans Skaperi.

Trial and error ... I made many small mistakes and two huge ones :D But if I want to learn, I have to begin somewhere. This one is for Nora. I think the fabric is a bit too thick for this ... but I've already begun sewing another one from the same pattern (Ottobre 1/09) and so far I've made ZERO mistakes! But I'm only halfways ;-)

byxor

De här muddbyxorna är en modifierad version av byxorna i Ottobre 1/09. Smart med långa muddar som kan vikas ner för att förlänga byxornas användningstid, tycker jag.

They will be a gift for a boy who was born last month, but he is still too small for them.

trosor

The white ones I made out of fabric scraps just to see if I understood how to sew them. The red ones with the elephants are my first "real" ones :-)

Sweets for my sweet (November)

Chocolate

in a box (Christmas gift):

Re-do

It was a t-shirt. It is no more. ;-)

Necklaces

Here are a few simple necklaces I made in December.





Bracelets:


+ earrings

I'm back

Time is flying, Nora is growing, and, as a matter of fact, I AM crafting. But then I have become lazy with uploading photos and blogging about what I'm doing. I'll try to start all over again :-) Here, and now. Or soon.

Thank you so very much for all your nice comments and email, they mean a lot to me. Thank you!

I'll be back soon. (I hope.)

Nora

Finally we have the internet again! And here's a photo of little Nora. She's now 1 month old (born 26.3) and I want to say THANK YOU to all my dear friends who have sent letters, emails, gifts, sms etc. I'll talk to each one of you later.



This photos is for Jes:

new home

I'm silent here ... it's because we're moving next week (8.3), and because the baby is soon to come (~25.3) and I'm soooo tired. When moving, we might be without an internet connection for a while. But I'll be back. Later :-)

A needle felted dog, and a real one

When I saw this book I immediately knew what to answer when Magnus' mom asked me what I wanted for Christmas. Needle felted dogs, that must be the perfect craft project for me ;-) The more so since it was a miniature schnauzer on the front side, just like my little Ia. But before making a schnauzer I tried making a dog of no specific breed, just to try. This is how it turned out.

And then ... my little Ia died. She was almost 15 years old, but it's still very sad. It's a week ago now.

what I've done lately

Now I haven't posted for a while. But I have been crafting when I haven't been busy working, visiting the doctor or buying a house ;-) Yesterday I made a new blanket for Zam, you can see more of it here and on Flickr. It's not a very beautiful thing, but he so needed it.

I tried a bit of embroidery. It's not what I'm best at, but it was fun. I haven't finished it yet, it'll be something for Magnus. If I was a clever girl I could give it to him on his birthday this month, but ofcourse I couldn't keep quiet so I told him everything about it ;-) Cross-stitch embroidery isn't really my thing, I thought, but since I'm always keen on trying new things I decided to go for it and I found out that I liked it. It was nice to sit in bed, concentrate and count the stitches to follow the pattern.
One evening when I was tired I also made three atcs. They are no beauties, but I wanted to do something simple with paper without having to think too much.



A week and a half ago I tried making a dotee doll following the instructions by Dot herself. It didn't turn out too pretty ;) . But it was my first try. Maybe I'll do another one, maybe not. When I made it I got the idea to needle felt a doll instead so I made this one:



Here are a few things I've finished lately. One of the purses (this one for Elena):


And the soft soft super super soft scarf for a swap:


An acrylic painting:


I also made a necklace (quite a while ago though, but haven't showed you yet). It's for a swap for knitters. You can see what I sent here. My photo is quite bad, but it's a ball of yarn with two needles in.

I love Blue Sky Alpacas organic cotton. I think this is a nice color combo: chocolate brown and minty blue. I bought them at KnitLab, a place that is very dangerous (in a very nice way) to visit because you can't leave without something ;-)